3. PARTNERSHIP DISTRIBUTIONS

WGP partnership distributions. WGP’s partnership agreement requires WGP to distribute all of its available cash (as defined in its partnership agreement) to WGP unitholders of record on the applicable record date within 55 days of the end of each quarter. The board of directors of WGP GP declared the following cash distributions to WGP unitholders for the periods presented:



thousands except per-unit amounts Quarters Ended	Total Quarterly Distribution per Unit		Total Quarterly Cash Distribution		Date of Distribution
March 31, 2013	$	0.17875	$	39,128	May 2013
March 31, 2014 ⁽¹⁾	$	0.25000	$	54,726	May 2014


⁽¹⁾	On April 17, 2014, the board of directors of WGP GP declared a cash distribution to WGP unitholders of $0.25000 per unit, or $54.7 million in aggregate. The cash distribution is payable on May 23, 2014, to WGP unitholders of record at the close of business on April 30, 2014.

WES partnership distributions. WES’s partnership agreement requires WES to distribute all of its available cash (as defined in WES’s partnership agreement) to WES unitholders of record on the applicable record date within 45 days of the end of each quarter. The board of directors of WES GP declared the following cash distributions to WES unitholders for the periods presented:



thousands except per-unit amounts Quarters Ended	Total Quarterly Distribution per Unit		Total Quarterly Cash Distribution		Date of Distribution
March 31, 2013	$	0.540	$	70,143	May 2013
March 31, 2014 ⁽¹⁾	$	0.625	$	98,749	May 2014


⁽¹⁾	On April 17, 2014, the board of directors of WES GP declared a cash distribution to WES unitholders of $0.625 per unit, or $98.7 million in aggregate, including incentive distributions. The cash distribution is payable on May 14, 2014, to WES unitholders of record at the close of business on April 30, 2014.